A young man at a prestigious, literary New England preparatory school who has spent his entire time there hiding his real self in order to fit in finds his facade and his world falling apart during his senior year.
Wolff's account of his boyhood and the process of growing up includes paper routes, whiskey, scouting, fistfights, friendship, and betrayal in 1950s America.
Wolff's account of his boyhood and the process of growing up includes paper routes, whiskey, scouting, fistfights, friendship, betrayal, and America in the fifties.
A collection of thirty-one short stories by Tobias Wolff that span the last twenty-five years of his career, featuring characters experiencing the ordinary and extraordinary events of everyday life.